Let it go, Rex & baseball at its best & a happy anniversary ....

Rex Ryan is never going to shut up, or act as if he’s in danger of running out of saliva.

It is increasingly clear that he’s obsessed with the Jets and New York and the whole greater New York area even though he’s now coaching in upstate New York.

But the reason he is no longer coaching the Jets isn’t because of the media, which spent so much time when he was here trying to lift him up — it got easier — and carry him around Florham Park.

The reason he is no longer coaching the Jets is his record after those two AFC Championship Games, which apparently gave him the cockeyed notion that he should be coach here for life. Jets fans liked having him around. A lot of them loved having him around.

And I know a lot who’d still like to have him here.

But he ought to take heed of something that a former coach of the Jets said once, and famously: You are what your record says you are.

Rex clearly thought making it to two championship games made him Tom Coughlin. It did not. He really needs to shut up now about his old team and focus on his new one. There is still so much baseball to be played in the American League East, and if you don’t believe how fast everything can change, look at what happened just in August with the Mets and the Nationals.

But for now, Carlos Beltran’s shot Friday night against the Jays is the biggest shot anybody has hit for the Yankees.

For now you can wonder if the cocky Blue Jays went into their touchdown dance a little early.

Good news for Yankee fans, off the way Jacoby Ellsbury has looked lately:

They have him for five more years after this.

At the very least since that attack of vertigo at the United States Open, Jason Day continues to show himself as a very tough out.

Imagine what this PGA would feel like if Jordan Spieth hadn’t burned the cup on the 71st and 72nd holes at St. Andrews, and if he hadn’t four-putted when he did during the final round. We’ve been told all along that Judge Richard Berman would only be issuing a decision on whether or not Roger Goodell had the right, under a flawed CBA in the National Football League, to do what he did to Tom Brady.

But it sure didn’t sound like that off some of the questions he was asking NFL lawyers the other day, did it?

Winning the NL East really is everything for the Mets, because with the starting pitching they have, you tell me what team, in the National League or anywhere, feels good about facing them in a seven-game series.

Things had gone so badly and so wrong for the Red Sox this season, another season that will likely find them in last place at the end, as they were a year ago.

Now came the news on Friday that their manager, John Farrell, was stepping away from the team to deal with a diagnosis of lymphoma.

There was the thought a few days earlier that losing their closer, Koji Uehara was the last sad act at Fenway in the baseball summer of 2015.

Only the news about their manager was, less than two years after John Farrell won it all with the Boston Red Sox.

Sometimes you get surprised by a movie on an airplane, and that’s exactly what happened last week with seeing how great Al Pacino and

Bobby Cannavale and everybody else was in “Danny Collins,” which I’d simply missed last spring.

You think Cubs fans are starting to dream at Wrigley, just a little bit?

Look at the season, by the way, that we’re having in baseball.

The Dodgers and Angels are both in play, and the Cubs are in play, and so are the Royals and the Cardinals, and you know what is happening in baseball New York.

And if you think about big markets and small markets, that is pretty much about as good as it gets. If they’re looking for somebody to take over “Celebrity Apprentice” for Donald Trump, maybe they could think about Chris Christie.

He’s not going to be doing anything in the fall, right? Finally this week: Happy 65th wedding anniversary to my parents, Bene and Lee Lupica.

They have not just helped make such a wonderful life for my sister and me, and for their six grandchildren.

They continue to have this amazing, wonderful life together, filled with love, and with optimism.

By the time they read this they’ll probably have gone for their morning walk already, into another day, hand in hand, together.

“Lupica” can be heard Monday through Friday at 1 p.m. and Sunday at 9 a.m. on ESPN 98.7.